Trivia: "West Side Story" was the first film to win the Best Picture Academy Award for two directors (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins).
Trivia: According to Disney there were 6,469,952 spots painted on the dogs.
Trivia: Jeffrey Hunter was 33 years old when he played Jesus. This is the same age Jesus was when he died.
Trivia: Hayley Mills mom accidentally mistook Hayley Mills stunt double for Hayley. Hayley's mom tapped the double on her head and said "Hayley come on."
Trivia: In 1973, Paul Newman played Henry Gondorff in "The Sting." Jackie Gleason later played the same role in the film's sequel, "The Sting II."
Trivia: As a follow on to what the director did with the solar eclipse, the locals as extras viewed his actions as a sort of curse and were not at all happy.
Trivia: At the very end of the film when Gregory Peck and David Niven are standing on the deck of the warship watching the explosions, you can see a very distinctive injury on Niven's upper lip. During the filming of the sequence where the commandos climb the cliffs he was slammed into the rock face by the water dumped on them to simulate the waves breaking over them. The resulting infection put him in hospital. He complains about the indifference of the film's producers in his book "The Moon's A Balloon."
Trivia: Audrey Hepburn gave birth to a nine pound baby three months before filming this movie yet she's still amazingly thin in the film.
Trivia: Even though Katy Jurado plays Pina Pellicer's mother in the movie, she was only 10 years older than her.
Trivia: Although they play mother and son, Claudia McNeil was only 10 years older than Sidney Poitier.
Trivia: Mrs Kidder, the afternoon help, is played by the actress Joan Hickson, who went on to play Miss Marple herself in many films.
Trivia: The only Oscar-nominated Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote cartoon.
Trivia: The earliest verifiable feature film to utilize the "found-footage" technique, that was later popularised by horror movies such as "Cannibal Holocaust", "The Blair Witch Project", and "Paranormal Activity".
Trivia: Angela Lansbury plays Elvis Presley's mother in the movie, even though in real life she's only 10 years older than Presley.
Trivia: Michael Hordern plays Charlton Heston's father in the movie. In real-life, Hordern was only 12 years older than Heston.
Trivia: The opening theme for this cartoon was also used in "Zip 'N Snort."
Trivia: The cartoon ends with no "That's All Folks!" title card. Just "Merrie Melodies: A Warner Bros. Cartoon. A Vitaphone Release" on a black background.